WASHINGTON — NCAA President Mark Emmert told a Senate committee Wednesday he supports "scholarships for life" and other reforms in how athletes are treated, then did such a good job of casting himself as a powerless figurehead that one senator told him: "I can't tell whether you're in charge or whether you're a minion.
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The coach of a team many people have winning the Final Four has a new contract extension that raises his average salary to $3.7 million a year. Billy Donovan also got a $250,000 bonus just for staying at Florida, but his is not the sweetest deal in college athletics. That belongs to Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, who will get more than $18,000 simply because one of the school's wrestlers is really good.
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FORT COLLINS -- Colorado State athletic director Jack Graham has suspended assistant football coach Greg Lupfer for two weeks without pay and has instructed the defensive line coach to undergo mandatory anger management and diversity training to be paid by the coach, the university announced Monday.
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A look at potential candidates for Colorado's vacant athletic director position: Ceal Barry Current job: Interim athletic director/senior woman administrator, University of Colorado Why she's a candidate: The legendary women's basketball coach has 30 years of experience at CU.
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If handled correctly, selling beer and wine at college football stadiums and at basketball arenas can be a profitable endeavor for universities. Handle it the wrong way and you might find yourself $16,000 in the red.
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Some of its key programs have struggled badly in competition recently, but the Colorado athletic department has never enjoyed more success academically than it did in the spring semester this year.
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